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>> won a grab those ipad, they did not get that far away. --18. >> and then they said you were not going to get away- (explicitives) >> and this is the area near the golden gate park. how were they? it was to become who tracked down at ipad. they said that there ipad is moving! the cops came and that is when they caught them. you can see the broken glass and flat tire. as to how that happened. . is to. all not. clear there was a one-vehicle accident. nothing major but as for all of that glass broke it is not clear. reporting live
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in san francisco, j. r. stone, kron 4 news. >> this map, let me show you that the police thieves broke onto this stones town gallery and this is near lake merced near 19th and going north. they caught up about 3 mi. north near golden gate park. 17/lincoln. that is where the ipad was recovered and the two women were arrested. the third suspect is police believe to be on the loose. >>pam: this yacht was taking on water in the san francisco bay. this is from abc's seven high-definition video from berkeley. and even a family dog, cat, snakeroot were rescued. and the medical assistance was needed on the scene. >> this beautiful friday. this holiday weekend, this
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live look from mount pam. the sun is beginning to set and you are looking at the san francisco skyline. meteorologist, brian, and can we expect this nice weather to stick around? >> it looks like the entire weekend is looking sunny. the high temperatures are mid upper 60s and even low 70's. 71 degrees in santa rosa. oakland, redwood city. similar in store for tomorrow. we will see sunshine and there could be some patchy fog, early. to the north bay but otherwise, sun and at the temperatures will be in the '60s and '70s. on the sunday, look for a similar day but the tail end of the weather system from the pacific northwest will provide some
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clouds and a slightly cooler temperatures. where we can expect that, coming up. >>pam: today is black friday and we have tamed coverage with a lot of people waking up early this is-team coverage. trying to grab a bargain and on the top right is from west field mall in san francisco. the bottom right is livermore at the new paragon outlet. let us check-in with charles clifford union square. charles, it looks pretty crowded? >> yes, i am right near the west and/san francisco. the stores began at midnight, macy's began at midnight and there are swarms of people there is always a lot of people and humans were but it is fully that right now. people are looking for great deals, and it is always- busy. however, when i asked what of what they got for
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christmas today. >> i got a sweater, jewelry. this is cute, relieve normal and jewelry. >> i got a vast, pace walker, and my mother something. a nash-sweater and a nice-cashmere sweater for my mom that was on sale. >> wasn't a good black friday deal? >> this was not locked. only $20 off. >> since deusser and steve madelyn. and my mother also did also got a pair of2 shoes from designer, steve madden. we will have live reports of the lighting of the christmas tree. and while charles is in san francisco alecia reed is in every bill. where there are a lot of activity in--
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emeryville. >> there has been a steady stream of people all day and with the black friday deals the holiday shopping season has definitely begun. (music) >> is a festive a black friday at the emeryville shopping center people were out making the best of the deals. >> i got this abercrombie and fitch gift card. >> starting with the sisters gibbs, brothers, sisters and achieve and daughters of a couple of things. -- gets. >> and with the deep discounts and they were getting great deals some got into altercations. >> i was almost going to fight for a big, good deal but it was not worth it. >> it is definitely not worth it because there is
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always something for everyone storms have seeing-stores have seen- steady foot traffic. >> it has just been crazy, since 8:00 a.m. it has been nonstop. >> ever were, this place is of some this is where you need to be. >> as you can imagine, some people have been here all day. this one woman i spoke with did not like crowds but was so happy because of all the great deals she got. in emeryville, alecia reed, kron 4. >>pam: just to give you some perspective look at this on how packed the stores were accurate look at this from high-definition abc news. this was the stone which mall in pleasanton at 7:00 a.m.. stone ridge-absolutely packed. >>catherine: it is black friday and some delighted
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crowd or perhaps not? it still ahead, some of the craziness. in a lot of places. >>pam: questions about the 49ers about the quarterback alex smith. if he is going to get his starting job back after his concussion. or if kaepernick will lead the team. that question haazig madyun >> it is the final question and practice before the orleans to play the saints. with coach jim harbaugh passed will it be alex smith? or will it be kaepernick that is wearing the no. 7. the starting quarterback. >> for that information, it is not released. >> is a matter of strategy. as if it will undoubtedly
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reach the teams opponent. >> there is no competitive advantage for us to release that information. >> i'm sure that one of the two quarterbacks if not both will realize. >> the second player got his first start last week leading the 49ers to an unprecedented win. and alex smith was on the sidelines because of the two-week concussion and his medical condition? alex was examined by doctors before crapractice. >> we should be cleared tomorrow. again, if there is no symptoms. >> i have been here all day that the practice facility to see if there is any clue on with the starting quarterback would be the only possible sign that i found would be at the music. (new day) >> then again, it could just be a coincidence. haazig madyun santa clara, kron 4. >> no comment from coach
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>> of th got a bit ugly when workers were been handing out vouchers. they wanted the vouchers right away and this was causing the outrage. how bad it to people need more electronics? this was an moline illinois and take a look at this they are even a shoving around this old woman. just for some cellphone equipment cannot wait. you can see the police had to break this up but it was ugly. now, this is at a midwestern target store.
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>> that is an angry argument between a group of women that is happening over there. this nearly ended and blows. the word is that possible it could somebody possibly could, somebody in line but there was one person that was also possibly pregnant. some people are saying that it is not a good idea to shop on black friday. >> to be fair, this is macy's in new york city were happy looking shoppers did their items and avoided me >> . however it did get crowded with a 11,000 people were in store from 9000 last year in line. many of this black friday frenzy wrapped up at dawn and so many businesses were opening on thanksgiving evening. there was a trough. this
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victoria's secrets, this was dram and some of these people pushing and shoving the store manager began pleading with everybody to stay coalm said this would not open the store until people would just not calm down a. and this was also a two-dollar waffle iron. this was referred to as a waffle right and this was in michigan, with security guards scrambling. even pepper spray having to use on one person and the police took away to people in handcuffs. this man and massachusetts it came out of a k-mart to fund the window smashed and the toddler that he was supposed to be babysitting was gone. police got a report of the police got a report of the people and left alone in the car. no charges were filed but the police came and got the baby. however, to not expect
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it seems like this to go away. 150 million shoppers, nation wide are expected to be out this holiday season getting an early start. last year, they spend $52 billion. it is expected to be even higher this year. i thought it was kind of interesting some of those shoppers that said that some of those sales were not that great. at least in some cases we are talking about crowds, pushing but in other places. and were things got violent was tallahassee, florida. there were two people shot an argument over a parking space. >> this was a nice day to be out side and not in the stores. blue skies, warm temperatures we will see greetings warming into the 60s readings and the mid 60s
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for alameda, redwood city. and walnut creek. as we take a look at it this weekend starting tonight clear conditions and patchy fog possibly developing for the overnight hours. as we get into the overnight hours the north bay valleys. for the rest of the day for saturday look for sunshine and high temperatures in the 60s. with 70's. on sunday, not quite as warm. we are getting the tail end of this weather system. temperatures dropping by three, five degrees for the day. temperatures for tomorrow with the coolest in the north bay. of order is for santa rosa, never, and upper 30's-low 40's for the-napa- region. 50s near the bay. for the afternoon, look for upper 60s and low 70's with mostly sunny skies. upper
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60s he inland. 60s by the bay. temperatures for san francisco will be very nice, mid-'60s and '70s for the north bay valleys. your kron 4 7 day around the bay as we take a look at this weekend a little bit cooler for this weekend monday, tuesday both look nice. also tuesday will see some increasing clouds later as the weather system will be coming into the bay area. making big changes for the end of the week look for rainfall, possibly heavy. with more storms thursday towards friday. gabe slate tech report >> cyber monday is almost hear the biggest on-line shopping day of the year. this year, cyber monday will set new sales records. they're offering big discounts to lure you to shop from your computer this monday. pretty much every shop live free shipping and handling. you can count on that. some of
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the best deals i've found for cyber monday was wal- mart. a septe $ 250 and also a 32 in. at $180. they're offering the ipad to at $380, that is $20 off and the x box 360. the family fun bundle at $159! and also electronics ebay his wife like, a samsung 16.1 mega pixel digital camera. $150, that is down from $200 your kmart is also slashing their prices of diamond earrings by 75% to all of the pre-lit christmas trees will be one-half off with a 50-inch rca television and a 39 in. lcd at $300. and 8 15 in. asus
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at $300. and also, the struggle is under $100. it is only $90. kohls will give a $5$15-cathcart is for every $50 spent on site. and--if you get cash dollars to spend at kohls for every $50 youget $15
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>> for it, coach harbaugh said that he will go with the hot hand. however, many people are speculating that it could be kaepernick but alex smith could be completely medically cleared. there is a quarterback controversy. and here are the ffacebook results. and if alex smith is medically cleared? 32 percent however a overwhelmingly majority say kaepernick. we shall see. and join the conversation on kron 4 .com. we will be back after this. [ male announcer ] steak and lobster is on the menu at sizzler.
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>> a great day to day with temperatures in the upper 60s even 70's. i will let you know when this will stick around for the weekend.
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tree lighting at a san francisco union square is happening tonight. they are already gathering for this tradition, and phillipe djegal how does it look? >> it is awesome, right now, pam this is the place where you want to be. have the macy's tree lighting. and of course many people turning out. you can see they are excited about what is going to happen about one hour from now. it is always worth taking a look at and certainly a lot of people are taking part. many families joining together to it in jordan tree lighting others have been waiting in union square. this will include christmas caroling, at that, and the entire act as for will add to the holiday spirit.
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>> some of my best friends and family. and we are going to see the lights. adjust to be here with friends, family and to see the christmas tree lights. it just to see that and some christmas carols. it is beautiful, and very nice. >> the tree lighting is scheduled at 6:40 tonight we will be here, like. at union square, kron 4 news. >> a very happy crowd and listen to this. they staffed by at this east oakland a homeless shelter today. they stopped by-and you can see that this singer is known for " say ahh.. he will be at the oracle irina. this provides resources for veterans and people with hiv and with people with families that are homeless. >> the was a special delivery to the white house
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on this day after thanksgiving. the entire family got the christmas tree. the 19th tree is from north carolina. specifically chosen for the white house. this is an amazing shopping seeing all across the country. to take advantage of these deals. many started on thanksgiving but a group of wal-mart employs the largest employer this might not have been effective as expected. >> on the biggest shopping day of the year. >> take a look at this southern california wal- mart. this large group of workers as well as the union members. protesting near the
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largest retailer, wal-mart. this is a protest not just in southern california but in the entire country. and the states of texas, maryland. try out workers, and working saying that these pay, the health care, and the company retaliation. despite the picket lines they are saying that it is having its best black friday and ebert. we spoke to one employed that it is great news for us. the best-black friday ever. >> we want the customers at wal-mart because this is how they pay our bills. this is how we statkeep the store opened the does want to keep the doors open. >> wal-mart says that only 50 employees did not show up for work on a black friday. the workers that were here saying that that is a lie. many employees did not show up for work trying to make
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the point that the company that they need to get to the table and figure out some of these issues. cnn and, paramount, california. the many people are starting off their bapart from the bargains but some of them are going to be even without even leaving their homes. the convenience and low cost of internet shopping more attractive than ever. posing problems for traditional brick and mortar. >> online vs brick and mortar, the battle for your holiday dollars has never been so intense. for years, internet merchants like amazon had key advantages california with no sales tax. however, brick and mortar, with the rising popularity of chains and ebooks michael tucker owns this line of book stores in san francisco. >> you can save 10%. >> however, that tax
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advantage it. at command amazon. also, taxing of this year in other states like pennsylvania, texas. online retailers collect where they have the physical presence half. here, and california, and the sun is building to giant warehouses. amazon that-it is 1 million square feet in your los angeles but the old fashioned retailers it is another reason to worry. >> because there items is to get items to their customers faster with even same day delivery. you can even avoid stores and have a package delivered to your house and a matter of hours. >> this is a win for consumers to difficult for retailers. >> when they create distribution centers, it is taking back that small business owners. >> that means that retailers
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will up their game. >> they can take a lesson from amazon. and focus on the consumer experience with more sophisticated online, offline. >> for those that want a lesson could learn from books inc, nearly everything that comes down amidst a tidal wave of change in the industry michael tucker's stores are thriving. >> everybody can get the box but the readers that we have and the staff that are working with the public that is the difference. we have a tremendous staff. with those communities. the basic reminder to internet and all others that could customer service could be a sizable factor in winning over business. cnn, san francisco. >> a growing trend this year people shopping on the go. coming up at 5:45 we will sit down with an expert from
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ibm to talk more about his analysis of the holiday trend. >> nice weather for this friday and it is here to stay. lots of sunshine and temperatures in the warmest places. 60s and tomorrow. temperatures in the warmest place is into the 70's. a carbon copy for it this saturday. clear skies, mild temperatures as we go into the overnight with a patchy, ground fog developing in the north bay. it could be even the dense with the lowering visibility for the other areas sunshine. just a gorgeous saturday as we go towards sunday will note some changes. temperatures will cool a little bit with the additional cloudiness but really nice weather hanging on monday, tuesday. things will be changing on wednesday with a storm system that will bring rain fall. details, coming up. >> it is a shaky agreement between israel and hamas is
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holding up. it has been two days since the cease-fire with eight days of violence but many people do not believe that this is going to lead to lasting agreement more on this. (chanting), this is a far cry, days after the cease- fire from israel and, as it is still holding. however they are looking for more than this than just a temporary truce >> our main goal is to end the occupation so our people will be able to establish their free, a palestinian state over the entire palestine's. with jerusalem as its capital. >> hamas, which is considered to be a terrorist organization has refused to recognize israel as existence. the obama administration has offered
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and israeli nation and a palestinian nation but they do not think that hamas is going to compromise. >> on 4 on moss is going to be the enemy they do not want to --, us is not going to want to negotiate hamas.. will not negotiate. this and it would six israelis and 160 palestinians dead. previous fighting has been a temporary truce with the violence starting back up again. not clear how long this will last. >> the president of egypt played a large role in the cease-fire. and the wide range of power that he has just granted himself he just had a new decree. he says they are meant to prevent these distractions from progress. however,
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protesters and they think that he could be a virtual dictator >>pam: checking the freight traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. look at the backup guard people are trying to come and westbound. you can see the lanes. the pay gates are back up. we will be back.
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thuganksvingeeke, geyear inrestree nag and ve uto0ngeeke, beayresand stedic evttre pri war geyear ds sday ep tin.ag >> the dow jones climbed on a black friday rally. it was up a over 13,000 today. that was seen as election day, and the s&p 500 laws also up and the nasdaq also did well. climbing 40 points. pretty good on the market today on the short day of trading. >> black friday causing a
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big boost for retailers. many people are shopping on the go. and mark, you are with ibm, thank you. how to gather this information? >> with a cloud police analytics platform but also aggregate online sales for 500 retailers. to provide trends in black friday. >> certainly, you can service those people better and how would you describe what is going on? >> i would say that things giving cells on my more up, obviously as more and more people are shopping on thanksgiving and a black friday a lot of activity. up 22.9% from last year >> this is a new thing called shopping on the go and multi-screen. >> the big is mobile shopping. on my iphone, ipad, and the smart phone. . people are not sitting at home anymore. >> a little bit of both,
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coach commerce, if you will. but now, people are on their goal. with also home, on a couch commerce-- >> and cyber monday is that still relevant? >> it will still be a big day but perhaps more people with the shopping more in the hours of the day. between now and cyber monday. and how about social commerce? and that is a new element. it is a new store on the facebook or sharing sentiments of people on meeting consumers' we interact with brands. when you see the pictures of everybody lining up. waiting for a week to go shopping and busting to the doors and all of that what do you think about that? that vs
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online? >> it reminds me of 10-12 years ago will be-commerce replace brick and mortar? there is definitely a fun element. the lines, the stores, but is not my idea of fun but it is part of the retail environment. it is not going away but the big story is to be able to touch the cross points for all consumers and is provided engagement. >> mark, thank you. >> thank you, pam. >> a nice day for this black friday we did see some sunshine. temperatures for in the '50s and '60s and even some areas in the '70s. and the san mateo and the back. lots of sunshine with mild temperatures. the 60s and most areas. oakland at 65 nice, mild. low 60s in fairfield. 58 and in the
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sierras it is going to be warmer. relatively speaking with temperatures in the 50s saturday and sunday with mostly sunny skies. a cold start. at lake level in the 20's.--snowfall levels at the higher elevations -- but 60s however, indicated by the green with plenty of areas in the '70s. and even the south bay. even low 70's for tomorrow afternoon evergreen, san jose. sunnyvale, a warm day with that sunshine. for this holiday weekend and upper 60s concord, pleasanton, 60s by the bay. and look for a 60s
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in san francisco, 60s at the coast is to be and i stay at the beach. and here is a look at sunday. nice. a few more clouds with a few degrees cooler monday, tuesday will be dry the but i got in notice increasing clouds from a storm system. that will bring rain even possibly heavy on wednesday. and another storm on a thursday and friday. >> and another check of friday traffic let us check the san mateo bridge. it is quite have the east bound. the headlights going towards hayward at the westbound not quite as bad we will be back fo [ laughter ] [ girl ] wow, you guys have it easy.
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>> this developing story there are two suspects behind bars after police traced them to a stolen the ipad. and a deadly accident two sisters ejected from a car there is one sister that two sisters ejected from a car there is one sister that is dead. coming up thrget 3 yearsgiving weekend, interest-free financing and save up to $600 on beautyrest and posturepedic. even get 3 years interest-free financing on serta icomfort and tempur-pedic. mattress price wars ends sunday at sleep train.
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(male announcer) live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. >> this developing story at 6:00 p.m. there is two women
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arrested near a car break- in and is still an ipad. there are still searching for one suspect j. r. stone is live for this is happening. j. r., what is the latest? >> there is a lot of security just think about this. you go into the shopping mall to do your block from a shopping but thieves are in this parking lot waiting for you to leave and waiting for you to steal your stuff. these ladies were caught at the golden gate park. and as far as how their work windows and smashed out in the tire was flat and? the police responded went to pull over this red car in the two women ran. these people watched as this entire event unfolded. >> and all of a sudden they said freeze (explicitve0
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>> i already heard that this was over an ipad. and i think that all of this over an ipad? just let them get away with that, you know? >> of here live at the shopping mall is important to note. i have seen dozens of officers in this parking lot today. they have been keeping an eye out. at one point to the reporting notes on the windows that said " hey, we can see valuables inside of your car. you have to cover it up because there have been deeps. there were two people caught. reporting live in san francisco, kron 4 news. >> we have a map. started and ended. this is the stone near 19th avenue, go north about 97 a, this is where police were able to pull over the vehicle there
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were two suspects arrested. outside of golden gate park. there were two women arrested and the are still looking for a third suspect as we speak. >>pam: >> this family was this 24 year-old woman has died. the woman is in critical condition that the father and siblings are also still in the hospital it happened at 7:00 a.m. on highway 1 0 1 near palo alto by the embarcadero exit. you can see from the wreckage how terrible this was the chp says that this lexis hit a patrol car that had pulled over on the shoulder to try to help another vehicle. the c h p had its lights on and the s u v flipped over, with the passengers ejected and one passenger died. people were and shock. the micros out to the families, the day
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after thanksgiving. it is a worst tragedy than i thought it was going to be. sadly, a terrible weekend. >> cars were crawling across the accident, the 101 north opened at 1:00 p.m. the chp officer riske also hurt but has been released. right now it does not appear that drugs, of all or the weather contributed to the crash. the cause is still under investigation. >> sunny skies to start. the sunshine will continue for saturday and sunday. this live look with clear skies and temperatures are mild. temperatures in the 60s. readings about the same with even a few degrees warmer. for sunday, some at extra cloudiness as the wind will
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come in off the ocean. a slight degree cooler but still nice, saturday. temperatures looking like this on futurecast with a plenty plenty green on the maps. that means that tends to be in the 60s the notice the yellow, the north bay. into the 70's, the north bay, for 70's for the south bay and also for sunday. cooler but still nice. we to have all rain on the way for next week. >> it is black friday. since last night shoppers have been out in full force. it got crawdad. emeryville shoppers. this is video from west field mall. and on the bottom right this near the paragon of let. at 6:00
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p.m. or black friday coverage of the outlets -- and in san francisco, charles clifford. kicking off their holiday shopping and it is packed, charles? >> take a look at this sidewalk. you are looking at macy's there are thousands of people out here. this opened around midnight. people are looking for deals and checking of the scene. whether or not they could have found any good deals? >> i got a sweater, some jewelry. just really cute, and queued normal jewelry. >> i got a best, sweater, and i got my mother something. a nice cashmere sweaters so it was great. >> was that a good luck for a deal? >> no pala
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> it was only $20 off. >> got some steve madden shoes but i did not even plan on getting anything. >> thousands of people gathering for the tree lighting ceremony will have more on that coming up charles clifford, kron 4 and her kids. alecia reed is and emeryville. for people are also taking advantage of lisa? >>pam: lisa read? >> pam, you can see that there are people out here and of course they are still here for these deals. >> the line at old navy went through the aisles and went to the front of the store. people were getting the best deals they could find. i
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found the most perfect item for my 10 year old bore a. we are having a wonderful day on a black friday. i take issue called a different color and black people were spending the cash. we have cologne, and items from abrcrombie >> the girl scouts were holding a coat drive to help the needy. >> the girl scouts get together they all collect coats. we're going to keep the community warmer. >> people were here giving back. the holiday shopping season has kicked off. in
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emeryville, alecia reed, back to yo up the forty- niners quarterback continues to details on the decision who is starting on this game on sunday? it took the country by storm with many stores overnight with,drama more videos got out of hand.
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into their work, their name on the door, and their heart into their community. small business saturday is a day to show our support. a day to shop at stores owned by our friends and neighbors. and do our part for the businesses that do so much for us. on november 24th, let's get out and shop small.
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the minute quarterback controversy continues. coach harbaugh held a news conference today and continued to frustrate reporters by refusing to state weather it will be alex smith or kaepernick. starting at the game. >> again, this is not something that we think that is it advantageous to talk about. you have your opinions and it is unorthodox. so be it. you can call me names if you want, or make sport of me. but that is how we are going to go about it. >> whether or not he is could be enough to play
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after that concussion the two weeks ago the only say that it will depend on weather or not alex smith is medically cleared but the doctors tomorrow. as we continue to look at the holiday traditions let us go live to phillipe djegal. his outside attending the m macy's -- just in 30 minutes, there are already gathering for the ceremonies, philippe? >> yes! they're even in the middle of the street. and they are busy behind me. many of people have been out shopping for hours and hours in their shopping by union square. to get a good look at the spectacular video. siefert younger, older, this is become an entire event. making the trek. this will be on stage from make a
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wish ambassador, 17 year-old shopping miguel. haazig madyun haazig madyunshelby...macgell (signing carols) >> this girl survived cancel at 4 years old and she thinks the make a wish foundation to give the the strength and courage to get through this. tonight, should be performing in front of thousands at the union square with a tree
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lighting expected s 6:40. stand by and continue to watch for that rule bring that to come alive. reporting live, phillipe djegal. rob burnett to, lik free will bring that to you, like. >> happy holidays to everybody, this was black friday seen at a kmart in sacramento. perhaps your the explicitness. they were threatening to stab anybody was going to push his family. this got ugly. you have to wonder how badly do people need it need another piece of electronics? this is an illinois, this wal- mart. these shoppers for hiking. and to relieve they began shouting and the police and security began to laugh and. it really began to get out of hand and moving in -- and these older
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people even getting trying to move and. security moving in. let us list to this midwestern target store. (scraping, scraming) >> this was an angry argument between a group of women. you can see that the onlookers continued that this was escalating they thought that this was going to come to blows. they became concerned that store workers tried to break this up. you are beginning to see why two-thirds of americans chose not to shop on black friday. >> to be fair, most black for a shopping looked like this at macy's in new york city. happy looking shoppers avoided may hamper. 11,000 people have been in 9000 laughter, but this year
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and 11,000 shoppers. so many business owners were opening up on thanksgiving evening. there was a traumdrama >> this store manager said that there were not court to open until the colusimmered down and this $2 waffle iron. there were joking the group referred to this as a waffle riot. in many cases it was not funny the small in michigan this fight broke out with security guards scrambling and pepper spray was used on at least one person. police had to take away to people in handcuffs. this man in massachusetts who came out of a kmart and found the window of his car smashed and the toddler that it was supposed to be babysitting was gone.
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police got the report of a child left alone. at last word, no charges were filed but even with all online do not expect scenes like this to go away anytime soon. 150 million shoppers, nation wide are expected to be out this holiday weekend. many of them got an early start with $52 billion and it is expected to be even higher this year. this is pushing at a wal-mart store and things got nasty but are please cut violent. two people were shot there was an argument aboard this--got violent. this was just over a parking spot. they are both expected to survive. >> take a look at the home markets. the new york stock
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exchange after a one half day with saks fifth avenue mascot. the dow jones industrial average at 173 points above 13,009. that has not happened since election day. the as indy500 was also increasing with the biggest gain of the year. the nasdaq also climbed 40 points. gabe slate tech report cyber monday is almost tear the biggest on- line shopping gabe slate tech report >> cyber monday is almost hear the biggest on-line shopping day of the year. thi year, cyber monday will
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set new sales records. they're offering big discounts to lure you to shop from your computer this monday. pretty much every major online retailer will offer free shipping and handling. you can count on that. some of the best deals i've found for cyber monday was walmart. a septre tv $ 250 and also a 32 in. at $180. they're offering the ipad 2 at $380, that is $20 off and the x box 360. the family fun bundle at $159! and also electronics ebay is offering a wifi samsung 16.1 mega pixel digital camera. $150, that is down from $200/ kmart is also slashing their prices of diamond earrings by 75% to all of the pre-lit christmas trees will be one- half off with a 50-inch rca television and a 39 in. lcd at $300. and a 15 in. asus at $300. and also, this treadmill is under $100. it
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is only $90. kohls will give a $15-gift card is for every $50 spent on site to spend at kohls... even you can follow twitter on the cyber monday with up-to-the- minute deals, good luck. >> this beautiful friday. clear skies and nice temperatures even at this hour. more is on the way for tomorrow. patchy fog for the north bay valleys right around sunrise. we could see dense fog for saturday,
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some sunshine and east- west, temperatures today even a few degrees warmer than what we saw today. a little bit of a change with the pacific northwest where or to catch the tail end of that. it will drop temperatures three-five degrees. in fact there is that storm system with high clouds but notice a lot of clear plenty of rainfall through washington and oregon. as we go towards sunday, some high clouds for the tail end of this week. temperatures will remain cooler on the north bay with 30's and 40's and 50's by the bay. highs for the afternoon will be 60s and low 70's really nice for the santa clara valley. milpitas, 69 degrees and upper 60s and led
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pittsburgh, antioch in the 60s and the same for the east shore. expected to peak 67 degrees under partly sunny skies. and here is the seven day your kron 4 7 day around the bay mostly sunny but cooler. monday, tuesday look nice with dry weather. we will see the chances for rain fall even heavy at times with more wet weather expected on thursday and friday. we will be back.
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there are gusting the cause of the crash. >> at the stones' town galleria there are two women behind bars after police believe they broke into one car in this parking lot and stole an ipad. but they did not get that far. you can see that this is near the golden gate park and the victim's head lot retract my stolen ipad. they tracked it down to this area and they told police that it was in a moving vehicle. they tried to run but they did not get that far. this evening, those two ladies are behind bars. j. r. stone, kron 4 news. >> as the paragon of le outlet d livermore, these stores open even on the thanksgiving evening and the crowds have stayed. many people have saved hundreds on things
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like clothing, watches, sunglasses because of this large crowd as they have set up a makeshift parking lot across the street. attendance are helping traffic. in emeryville, black friday is in full effect the old navy went out to the front of the store. they were on the hunt for the best deals possible. coming up at 8:00 p.m. some people that saw some deals the could not resist. kron 4 news. >> thanksgiving kicked off the season of giving these are
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hopes to take a look, with the north bay valleys, we could see some limited visibility but otherwise, a nice day. sunday, we will have sunshine and extra clouds. there will not be any 70's up. more mild weather but the changes will be coming with this storm system. the chance for rain fall even heavy. even rain on thursday and friday. >> wal-mart workers and their supporters are protesting stores across the country they're upset about
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wages and benefits they claim that management is not treating them well. this employee back groups in the there was 1000 protesters would 46 state but that is not even close to them numbers greatly exaggerated. many of these protesters do not work even at wal-mart. >> the new-york city bluebird has ended the gasoline rationing since november night. they have been able to purchase gasoline every other day. not only the long lines but some of those ran out of gasoline some of these are now operating that there is no need for the rationing with over 7 percent of the gasoline stations in operation stay with us.
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>> we want to take you back outside with a bay area tradition. they are waiting for this special lighting for this christmas tree. phillipe djegal. >> these spectators do not believe this remembering that it is this busy. thousands of l e.d. lights. >> and this tree is reusable, you are here all the way from texas? and yes, we always come to the city because we love being here for the holidays. i have seen this before but it is like the first time. >> it does not matter if you are a charge or an adult you can enjoy this. >> young, old, you can enjoy this. >> laura martinez. we are taking a look at this street
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and union square. it is supposed to light up shortly. they have their cameras out, but many people with 33,000 led this was supposed to be just the icing on the cap, so to speak. what is the best part about this experience. you can see the buzz is the
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anticipation. you can hear the crowd getting even louder. more and more people are starting to let their cellphones to catch that lightning. right in front of macy's and after that lighting ceremony many people are going to go out to the seventh four to get thegive their lives letter to santa, for the make a wish foundation. helping to fight cancer and deadly diseases. this will be an opportunity for them to jump-start their holiday season. all year. you have your camera, laura. >> yes, i am ready. past >>pam: philippe, how does this for you? you have not been for this before? >> i grew up in walnut
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creek. but i've not been to the bay iraq for four, five years, pam. so certainly this is a special for me, and also for you. it never gets old. >> no, it does not. i did not realize the red childhood memories and traditions here in san francisco. how many people are out in union square, a rough estimate? >> i would have to say at least 10,000. all of the streets are blocked and people are in the streets, gary powell and people are standing in the middle. >> many of these people are focusing on the tree. >>pam: the lot of families. past you do not see any people walking around alone.
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i thought it was interesting people spending hours just to get into the macy's black friday stores. but they walked into a union is going, and got the best spot. a lot of people with from all of the nine counties, and many are this have seen this for the first time the, themselves. a memo >> is there a heavy police presence with so many people in a small, tight area? >> police are surrounding the area. >> most of these officers are working in pairs. even the fire department near powell and there are
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probably plain clothes officers to make sure that everything is safe in smooth as possible. >> are there people christmas caroling in the square. ? >> yes, we will show more of them, later tonight at 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. but we did to get some christmas carolers they were spectacular. that is kind of what this is. there is a great pre-show. all in the holiday spirit. house some of us can see this--most of the people are round waiting i guess would take a quick break they must be behind schedule. we will quick break they must be behind schedule. hey, look! a shooting star! make a wish! i wish we could lie here forever. i wish this test drive was over,
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>> we can see that this was lit up just about five minutes later. organizers had planned but still, it looks great. with 33,000 l e d lights. 11,000 bulbs and of course the start is that spectacular sight. you are born to be able to enjoy this through christmas. reporting live, phillipe djegal, kron 4 news. >> this space crew showing off what they have for the holiday meal. zero gravity of smoked turkey, dehydrated cornbread stuffing and even candied he ems. they had a sweetened peach cranberry drink and its, highway. and
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coming up in sports the national hockey league becomes a bit, to the player locked out. and also the alex smith kaepernick jason has sports
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>> welcome back, but no official no official word, on alex smith or kaepernick. this no-contact
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>> it is not something that is an advantage for us to release that information. we have your opinions is unorthodox, so be it. common names if you want, and make sport of me. but that is how we are going to go about it. >> harbaugh flat out the night that he said that he did not tell alex met the was not going to start. >> cars and polymer against his former team he did not leave under great terms but the raiders is going to do without mcfadden for the third straight game as he continues to have a high the ankle sprain. with just under 100 total yards when he suffered the injury. that could mean another huge day for mr. versatility who has had 392 total yards in a 2.5
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games. and fantasy football owners take note. reese be the guy. however, take a look this was not really a touchdown the leak is admitting a rule that is possibly going to be changed clearly he was down but there was no whistle he kept on running. 81 yds and this is where he said that if the coach is challenging the split which is exactly what coach jim schwartz did and the competition committee is going to see weather or not to change this not after this season but even in that the next couple of days. and also this player could be
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fined on weather or not if this cleat couldn't be possibly find because of this was deemed intentional. he is no stranger to dirty plates he was voted the dirtiest player, two years running. and bad news for hockey fans, and one-third of the season has been cancelled. because of the lock out. also the all-star game that was slated for january 27th in columbus, ohio. they are calling off of games betweeseptember today s the 16th day, with 422 regular-season games, 33 percent of the season has been lost as both sides argue on how to split the $3 billion in revenue. this is the third time that also, the san jose hosting san
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jose tech as stanford is going to look for the 10- victory. and displayed that happened in five unti ariz. arkansas, and this is jarvis landry with the outstanding catch. and check it out >> college hoop randy bennett, and also, brad getting be lorenzo making this the freethrow 77-66 in
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stanford over northern iowa. and yesterday we reported that the more hoard state coach he was indeed suspended for one game of fort shoving in the back it does not look like much but you cannot touch the players. he apologized and he says that this will never happen again. and will leave you on that note. >> see you at 8:00 p.m.
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